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Chapter Two: New Soul

Six days passed since that night they had last spent together. Nothing really seemed to change.

Except on the seventh day after they had last had sex, Maka felt strange...

"Hey, Maka, wake up," Soul shook his girlfriend lightly, "The alarm didn't go off."

Maka slowly rubbed her eyes to relieve the heaviness of her eyelids and she sat up, "What time is it, Soul?"

"It's 6:45."

Maka hopped out of bed, hurriedly rummaging through a chest of drawers adjacent to their bed. She groaned when she couldn't find the clothes she was looking for.

Soul smirked, walking over to a chair in the corner of the room and picking up her usual outfit, "Don't you remember you got it all set last night?"

She sighed in relief; she grabbed the hangers off of him and rushed off to the bathroom to get ready as quickly as she could.

When she was finally alone, Maka realized something. There were two souls in the room, hers and another. It wasn't Blair's soul and it wasn't Soul's; it was a completely new soul. The soul was...in her lower stomach.

She shook in realization what this meant. No...no, this couldn't be true. She slipped down the wall, curling her knees to her chest.

What was she supposed to tell Soul? Sure, she had some time to think over what to tell him, but the idea was still frightening. What would he say? What would he do?

She lost track of time with the shock of her realization; she had to have sat in the same place for at least ten minutes. She heard a knocking on the door and Soul calling her name.

"Maka, we have to leave."

Maka didn't reply. She wasn't sure what to do. Pregnant? She was pregnant?

Of course, she planned to go through with the pregnancy, but she wasn't sure what she was going to do once the baby was born.

"Maka?"

She still stayed silent. She couldn't squeak out a single word.

She heard the knob of the door turn and Soul step inside the small room. He noticed that she was on the floor, causing him to get down on his knees to get closer to her level.

"Maka–"

"I-I'm sick. I'm staying home today."

"I know something's wrong. Tell me."

"Please, Soul, I just don't feel good. I'm fine, though."

Lies: every word she had just spoken had been a complete and total lie. She hated doing this, but she just wasn't ready to tell him.

He didn't believe one word that she had just uttered; his disbelief was masked across his face.

"Maka..."

She clasped her hands around one his larger ones, "Soul, I need to tell you something."

Even if she wasn't ready, she had to tell him now. She just had to do it.

"What is it?"

He cared. His expression said it all. She knew at that moment that he would love her—baby and all.

"I'm…I'm pregnant, Soul."

"What?" Soul asked in surprise. He couldn't find a proper response to his girlfriend's announcement.

"I'm pregnant," Maka repeated quietly.

"Oh."

It was silent. Neither had a clue of what they should say to the other. Soul simply collapsed onto his bottom and hugged Maka. It was quiet, but the atmosphere was no longer tense.

"I love you, Maka."

"I love you, too."

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